Comments on: By Eating This You Agree That It is of Mine

By: golfman_story

golfman_story — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:56:24 +0000

Great post, really help me alot. Thanks.

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By: Chuck Roast

Chuck Roast — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:46:01 +0000

Since the edible in question is sold with the understanding that I will make “no further use” of it I’d feel honor-bound to deliver to the right-holder any and all feces I excrete in the day or so after consuming his product.

By: Simon Wardley

Simon Wardley — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:33:47 +0000

Hmmm, Eula on Food?

Great article, nice touch on the eat it and therefore you agree to it part. Cookyright is such a disturbing concept.

Anyone for Physical Rights Management?
(http://swardley.blogspot.com/2006/10/its-no-laughing-matter.html)

By: Pat

Pat — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 21:52:53 +0000

Having just eaten that very paper 2 weeks ago, I can testify that it is, indeed, delicious. As was the menu, which was a printed on a parmesan basil wafer. That also had the same copyright notice on it.

By: derek tumolo

derek tumolo — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:50:30 +0000

You can use EULAs for good, though. Anyone witnessed the EULAs on filesharing networks like direct connect or soulseek? ‘By downloading from this computer you certify that you are not an actual or agent for any law enforcement agency, recording industry, motion picture agency…’ etc. Nice way to stick it to the man.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 18:49:11 +0000

Since the body, by design, breaks down ingested food into constituent proteins, etc., does that violate the copyright agreement and potentially the patent? What assumptions about fair use are made? Must we also consider the rights to remix and alter the original content beyond that anticipated by the creator? If I have a child, am I, by some long extension, reproducing this person’s work in a form not otherwise permitted and thus liable for infringement in some fashion? Am I also in violation when I eventually, um, well you know…relieve myself?

All “serious” questions aside, I think this sense of having to copyright and/or patent this creation is crazy.